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concerned have refused treatment and actually sent the cases home
stating that they were not liable for either hospital or other treatment.
In other instances cases have been admitted to the Isolation
Hospital and the amount charged to this Borough. This has led to
much discussion but by the Public Health (Treatment of Infectious
Diseases) Regulations, 1934, which came into operation on the 1st
July, 1934, it has now been definitely stated that the district in which
the disease is discovered is liable for the hospital or other treatment
of the patient.
DISINFECTION OF PREMISES.
The disinfection of rooms from which patients suffering from
notifiable infectious diseases have been removed is carried out by
means of the formaldehyde spray. For other than notifiable conditions
disinfection is carried out on request, and a charge made
according to the circumstances of the case. Bedding and wearing
material are removed to the Disinfecting Station, Tunnel Avenue,
and are there submitted to steam disinfection. Books are now
treated with Formalin.
The following returns show in detail the amount of work performed
during the year by the Disinfecting Staff : —